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...TIME'S thanks to Reader Merry. For the names of TIME'S team, let him look at the masthead...
...There is no historical record of how & when Cleaveland became Cleveland. The legend: one of the town's earliest editors dropped the A because it made his journal's masthead too long; no one complained, so it was never used again. *Among other good catches: a Glenn L. Martin plastics plant; a Butler Brothers metallurgical plant; a Fruehauf Trailer Co. assembly factory. *Greater Cleveland (pop. 1,250,000) is Cuyahoga County. Cleveland has 13 suburbs ranked as cities (the largest is Lakewood with 65,900 population) and 41 suburbs ranked as villages...
High-minded as the masthead of the New York Post* was Kultura i Zhizn's program: "to develop Bolshevist criticism of defects in different branches of the economy and cultural life and to carry on an unyielding struggle with the remnants of the old ideology and with undiscipline, laziness, lack of culture, bureaucracy and carelessness. . . . Producers and writers who suppose that the Soviet people want only entertainment and amusement . . . are hopelessly wrong. Soviet literature and art must produce works full of passion and deep thought, shot through with ideas of Soviet patriotism." Warned the leading article solemnly: "Workers...
What received a column and a half in Time merited one inch in the Service News. On June 6, a streamer atop the masthead on page one said, "Allied Armies Invade Continent, German Radio Claims"; and under the 12-point head, "River Front Police Reinforced," was the story: "In view of the recent disorders on the Charles River front, the Metropolitan District Police and University Yard Cops will hereafter give additional protection in that area, it was learned from Dean Hanford's office yesterday...
...Daily Worker was caught with its ideological pants down and Editor Budenz's name still on the masthead. After a seething silence, Communist hierarchs formally excommunicated Budenz from the Communist faithful, calling him a deserter and blaming the "political looseness and carelessness" of ex-Party Chief Earl Browder's regime...